21st Century Earth Dynamics Part2

Second of a two part video about a complete, new geodynamic theory, recently published in the scientific literature, called Whole-Earth Decompression Dynamics, that unifies and supersedes plate tectonics and Earth expansion theories.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• plate tectonics
• earth expansion
• mantle convection
• mid-oceanic ridges
• guyots
• heat transport
• geothermal gradient
• science teaching
• education
• earth science

[wokenup100]

This just doesn't make sense to me. The animations are too crude and video isn't as nearly as engaging as Neil Adams' videos which is obviously the inspiration. It really needs better animations before I am convinced.

[MarvinHerndon]

@wokenup100 Neil Adams is a cartoonist; I am a scientist.

[Guildhelm]

Great video! As the largest rocky planet of our system maybe the Earth is a good example of a planet just between rocky plant and gas giant.

[MarvinHerndon]

Thanks. Yes, if all of the lost primordial gasses originally associated with Earth were put back, we would be a planet almost identical in mass to Jupiter.

[blacksilkblacksilk]

You are - as far as my knowledge goes - the first one to suggest a viable mechanism for expansion. That in itself is refreshing. But - being a physicist myself - I must wonder: There are calculations about moment of inertia of earth, and the rotation rate of earth; and according to those calculations the figures do not match with an expansion model.

You inspired me to do those calculations myself to check, but I would like to know your answer to this, Sir.

Best regards

silk

:-))

[MarvinHerndon]

There have been moment of inertia calculations going back to S. Warren Carey. It might be interesting to revisit those, particularly for the compressed earth radius being about 64% of the present earth radius. It might be interesting to look at different relative compressions between core and mantle. Good luck.

[OldSchoolSkill]

"Nuclear Core" may seem like pseudo-science, but I find no valid refutation yet, here or in any journal. It took 50 years to accept tectonics. This will require as much work to validate or falsify. Dr. Herndon seems credible and has no apparent financial motive.

So far, the best evidence is high-presence of helium-3 in Hawaiian vulcanism. He-4 is possible without fission, but He-3 in large amounts indicates something's happening down there! Occam's razor makes fission a plausible answer.

[MadMuz2000]

Just wondering if the change in relative sea levels alter the visual jigsaw piece effect of the interlocking continental masses. I mean the shapes that look to fit do so at the current relative sea levels. Has all the geology of the jigsaw regions been tested and retested to ensure mineral data accuracy as with what ever mechanism that moves these masses around is it surprising that over vast distances the elevations of the masses have not altered according to mineral sampling. Just a question.

[swankiey]

excellent theory, tee towel-very phase. I know that's not what you said. :)

[1Littleagger]

Thank you so much for information that makes me think.You are a blessing.

[jordanpasek]

How come our 4 gas giants were not stripped of their gasses too? Or did they recapture the gasses lost from the 4 rocky planets?

[nononsenseinrational]

If the compression was initially caused by all that excess gas pressure, why does it takes that long for the planet to expand? Should the decompression be correlated with the loss of gas, meaning that it ends when the gas is been stripped in the first place. Also i never tough that solid could be compressed that way and especially not at those scales. Maybe the planet would expand half an inch but by nothing suggest that the earth is still expanding. Continental drift happening to this day! Why?

[HillardEarl]

Earth Dynamics is the answer. Now from that answer, we must find the right questions? All answers are available. But without the right question. The answer is meaningless. Epictetus once said It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows. You can see the truth. What is the right question? All answers are available for the taking. Only if you ask the right question. Epictetus also said The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.

[DodecaDude]

@MarvinHerndon Neal is an artist and by extension a communicator. Being as artist and a scientist are not mutually exclusive, they both require the ability to observe reality and the imagination to understand it. The pulsating repetitive animations and shouting over music hurts the head and communicates next to nothing about your theory. Instead of puffing your chest out and sticking your nose up, you would do well to take some creative coursework to increase your effectiveness at communication.

[R181183]

I recently discovered that there have fossils of the same species' (or at least ancestrally very close) been found on the australian east coast and the south american west coast. Including plants, land- and sea animals. I really wondered how that could possibly have happened..

This theory seems to provide an answer.

Keep up the good work, I really would like to see this developing further.

I know gut feelings don't prove or mean anything, but this just makes too much sense to be false.

[sgfellow]

Very imaginative theory - and I mean that as a compliment. I just wanted to point out that the expanding Earth proponents can have their cake AND eat it: Imagine a pot of porridge (oceanic material) with oil (continental plate) floating on top. Turn up the heat and the convecting, subducting porridge (Earth) expands, so you can have expansion AND convection at the same time. However, such a a scenario would suggest a dynamic core, but science always uncovers more questions than it answers :-)

[rehsab01]

Why not say that the center of the Earth is a black hole, as with the center of the Sun.. except that they are different "densities"? That would explain lots of stuff since black holes are center of proto-matter creation. For example why is it the sun spots are (super) dark and suck plasma inwards? Also where does all the heavy elements (such as iron) come from or created? Use your imagination...